Hi all, Say I've got a form with this in it <select type="checkbox" name="options:list"> <option value="1">number 1 <option value="2">number 2 <option value="3">number 3 </select> When this is put into an SQL database, the field 'options' is this (string) ['1', '2', '3'] or ['2', '3'] etc. When I get the data back from the database, 'options' comes back as a string, and <dtml-in options> ... </dtml-in> gives errors (basically, it can't iterate over a string). I tried <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('new_options:list', options)"> and then tried iterating over new_options, but the variable didn't exist... Has anyone got any solutions for this? TIA Tone ------ Dr Tony McDonald, Assistant Director, FMCC, http://www.fmcc.org.uk/ The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5116 A Zope list for UK HE/FE http://www.fmcc.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/zope